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authorShan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>2013-06-21 03:18:32 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-24 03:26:26 -0400
commita3c910d2e796ce878231350b904105261a8cf09c (patch)
tree5464f7c1e3b04d799b42baa9c58f78d8346cb785 /Documentation/networking
parent4eb313a7a939a983c525648227b5fe0a9d41679f (diff)
tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901 (tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL). And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index f98ca633b528..3458d6343e01 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
420 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. 420 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
421 421
422tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN 422tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
423 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES 423 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
424 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket 424 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
425 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' 425 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
426 Default: FALSE 426 Default: 1
427 427
428 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. 428 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
429 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand 429 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand